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Time again for another march toward t-shirt doom! Discuss this week's life-or-death struggle for sales supremacy as chronicled on the Reckoning page all week long.

Here's how the Reckoning week runs now: every Tuesday at midnight, we retire the previous week's lowest-selling shirts and launch
this here discussion thread. Tuesday around noon we'll post the all-new, all-early Reckoning Recon. On Friday, we'll juice demand and
prime the pump with a little weekend reminder post. Finally, on the following Monday, the Day of Reckoning post sounds the last call
for the Reckoned shirts. All of those posts will be linked below. Monday night (or Tuesday morning), it starts all over again. The
Reckoning, she is a hungry beast...

Updates

neuropsychosocial

Congratulations to this week's only new veteran, The One Shirt. As the sole survivor of the Costume Derby (Hallowoot 2012: more trick than treat), will sales mirror that of candy corn - or will wannabe Hobbits maintain its position in the top five?

Can Procrastination University reach 7000 sales this week, or will it put it off until next week? Can Unstealthiest Ninja 3 garner 10,000 sales this week, or will my favorite little squishy get in his own way? As The Binge nears its 62,000th sale, can Not what I meant fly back into the top twenty yet again? Can Pumpkin Everything bring its formidable pumpkin-force to a gorey battle with Zombie U? And will royal blue blanks swim, fly, or walk back into the shirt.woot store room before the end of Reckoning 273?

citizencoyote

The Monster Cookie should escape sometime today, even without the help of kids' sizes (c'mon Woot, go kick your suppliers or something!). Rex the Riveter may suffer for the same reason, as might Cat's Resume. I don't see our wishful penguin escaping again, though. His sales seem too weak now as we head into the holiday season.

Woah - and yikes. Any sense of whether sales are low or the trackers are broken?

neuro's thought process: Huh, that's worrisome. I wonder if there's been an uptick in sales since Robbie posted. I wonder if I could figure out how many shirts have sold since... OH WAIT: I do that every day! Yeah, brain isn't working great at the moment.

neuropsychosocial

citizencoyote wrote:It makes me wonder how much higher "Cat in the Box" would be without the crimps to the supply lines.

Interesting question. We have a weird confluence of events at the moment: no royal blue kids' blanks with several kid-friendly shirts; some slate shirts are selling in MXL, one is offering back-orders, and four have sold-out notices; 7% of the U.S. population didn't have power on Tuesday morning, and a good percentage of those who do have power/internet may not be thinking about shirts right now. So far, this looks like it will be a week with low sales and it's impossible to tease those factors apart.

escapecar

I suspect that the lack of royal blue shirts in kids' sizes will put The Binge at risk next week. Losing the top-selling shirt in Woot history due to a supply chain failure is one hell of a way to run a business.

neuropsychosocial

I had no idea! This morning, I happened to put on the very first shirt that I bought from shirt.woot: Transitions. What a coincidence!

Two years... I had no idea that my closet would be filled with so many awesome shirts (thank you to each of you who designed them!), nor that I would find something on woot even more special than shirts.

neuropsychosocial

Even if it were a fair fight - which it's not - there's not a single outcome that feels good.

Thinking of all of you - good luck!

When I posted this last night, I had no idea just how bad this Reckoning was going to feel. It was not a fair fight in any way: some shirts with back-order available, others not; a day of server problems due to a predictable, annual time change; and the Reckoning closing an hour early.

Robbie, this stinks.

Obvian, I am also very sorry to see your t-rex go.

At the same time, I am glad to see Cats Resume and Formula for Success (JASON!!!) survive.

escapecar wrote:I suspect that the lack of royal blue shirts in kids' sizes will put The Binge at risk next week. Losing the top-selling shirt in Woot history due to a supply chain failure is one hell of a way to run a business.

No kidding! However, I have a suspicion that if the blank shortage put Binge in danger, woot might step up to institute some special policy to deal with it. While woot should treat every shirt the same - and it's not fair that some shirts are available for back-order and some are not - Binge and Nevermore have been propping up the whole enterprise. Woot still loses money on some shirts, and shirt.staffs' jobs depend on making money, and Binge makes a lot of money for woot...

Let's hope the royal blue shirts are back soon and we don't have to worry about this for ANY of the royal blue shirts.

iceknyght

At the same time, I am glad to see Cats Resume and Formula for Success (JASON!!!) survive.

I too am also sad to see Robbie's shirt go... His shirt and my shirt would usually hover around the same spots, switching back and forth a bit... It was a good run though!

And I am also glad to have made it out, but can only wonder if my time will be coming soon... Lack of blue shirts is definitely not going to help keep me (or any of us Blueshirts) afloat, that's for sure!

Fishbiscuit, Walmazan, Ramy, rasabi: if you'd be comfortable sending me a PM with the link to your tracker, I can continue to update the daily sales numbers in the Reckoning thread. I understand if you're not comfortable with that - just a thought, because I doubt that fixing them is high on the devs' priority list.

(I'd ask to have them fixed, but based on the response to my two "please make all the slate shirts available for back-order" threads, I think I'm on the "ignore list" for the week!)

My sales link is still updating even though the Reckoning is not. Does anyone know if that will alter the standing in the Reckoning?

Thanks for the updated total - I'll use that as the baseline.

If your tracker is updating, your Reckoning standings should be correct, AFAIK. The trackers and the old stat links pulled directly from the database; the new stats posted on the discussion pages require, um, server-side scripting? (Do I have that backwards?) So they don't update in real-time and occasionally they go on strike.

Or they run full-speed into daylight savings time and collapse at the thought not seeing the sun for four months.

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